#Natasha Pitch

[letraspal]

Happy Birthday Baz Pitch! Never forget you were brought to this world with love.

(Also, happy birthday to the one and only @rainbowrowell)

[roomwithanopenfire]

Proof of Life- Snowbaz Fanfiction

Rating: Teen

Chapters: 17/17

Word Count: 83.5k

Summary:

“What are vampires anyway?”

My mother tensed, face hardening.

“Vampires are dark creatures.” My father said carefully. “They are evil.”

“But I’m a vampire?” I asked.

“Basil,” my mother snapped. “You cannot say that. What if someone were to hear you? No one can know. Vampires are evil and bad. Do you understand that, Basil?”

“Am I?” I asked.

“Are you what?”

“Evil and bad.”

“If you act like a vampire, yes. Now go play outside.”

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Vampires attacked Watford and Baz was Turned, but this time Natasha Pitch lived. What would Baz’s life be like growing up with his mother? How would Natasha feel about her son’s… condition? And what happens when you throw the Mage’s Heir into the mix?

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Huge thanks to @demadogs for beta reading for me!!

[cutestkilla]

Happy Birthday Apricot!

Happy birthday from @bookish-bogwitch and I to our beloved @ivelovedhimthroughworse ! You're just wonderful in every way and we're both so happy you were born. Please accept this story about strong women and breaking rules for the people you love (and young, canon divergent Fiona and Nico raising hell) as a token of our deepest affection.

This will be posted in three parts, with the next two coming over the next few days.

Into Her Arms, T, 6.6K, 3/3

Some rules are made to be broken.

Chapter 1

I am Jack's toxic masculinity.

Chapter 2

I am Jane's litany of regrets.

Chapter 3

I am Jack's soft underbelly.

[alexalexinii]

COC Day 26 - Angst

Let me just pretend that their portraits are next to each other :,)

@carryon-countdown

[paper-beats-writers-block]

hearty shoutout to the Rise and Fall of Simon Snow book series for being the only series that I can finish the trilogy and immediately reopen the first book. Thank you for your characters being lovely, thank you for your writing being spectacular, and thank you for all of the things you’ve helped me learn about myself while reading these.

[ivelovedhimthroughworse]

Inktober 2023

Day 22 - Scratchy

"Your hands are scratchy," I'd say when she cupped one around my cheek.

"They're fire-holders hands," she'd say. "Flamethrowers'."

Carry On, Chapter 38, Rainbow Rowell.

[young-mitali]

Natasha would've loved Simon and Penny.

Natasha loved sour cherry scones and i bet even as a headmaster, she would've gone to the dining hall during tea break just to get some scones. I imagine Simon and Natasha would grab a plate each and hover round the food table chatting about anything, possibly about their love for sour cherry scones.

In wayward son, Baz calls Penny "his mother's child". Natasha would have loved Penny's intelligence and courage. If Natasha could choose to mentor anyone who wasn't Baz, she'd choose Penny.

In a world where Baz still had Natasha, I think he wouldn't have turned out "evil". Baz would have been friends with Simon and Penny early on and I'm sure Natasha would've loved Baz's friends.

[crankybeetle]

Scattered 'cross my family line

I'm so good at telling lies

That came from my mother's side

Told a million to survive

Scattered 'cross my family line

God, I have my father's eyes

But my sister's when I cry

I can run, but I can't hide

From my family line

-Family Line by Conan Gray

@carryon-countdown day 5: Bloodlines

[pacey-bunce-loves-joey]

somehow THIS is among the most powerful bloodlines in the world of mages.

[c0nsumemy5oul]

@rainbowrowell do you think it's possible we get an animated movie for each of the Simon snow books? Because at this point it's a NEED.

[theearlgreymage]

Wait. Hold on. I have a QUESTION.

Because we have the most outlandish name - Tyrannus Basilton Grimm-Pitch for our beautiful man.

But what about Natasha and Fiona?

@rainbowrowell I need to know 👀

Are they ridiculously traditional/old family names? Are they fun lighthearted middle names? Are they the most basic of basic middle names?

I cannot rest until I know!!

[letraspal]

Women of the Simon Snow Trilogy

Thank you for the support for this collection. I love these women and I’m glad they exist in this awesome trilogy. Ps. Happy Birthday to Any Way The Wind Blows.

[roomwithanopenfire]

Proof of Life-Chapter Two

Chapter Summary:

“You’ve never played vampires?” Dev asked.

I shook my head.

“Oh, right,” Dev said. “There was that vampire attack on your mum a few years ago. She probably doesn’t like vampires.”

I nodded.

“Well, your mum’s not in here, so I’ll teach you how to play vampires. So one of us is the vampire—that’ll be me—and the other—you—will be the victim.”

“Victim?”

“Yeah, you know. The one who gets his blood sucked.”

“What do you mean blood sucked?”

“I mean, the vampire will suck the victim’s blood.”

“But— but vampires don’t suck blood.”

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Snapshots and memories of Baz’s childhood, from five years old to the summer before third year. He has a lot to learn about vampires.

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[excalisbury]

idk about you guys but i'm obsessed with Natasha Pitch in Bulgari

✨✨Jewels and sparkles and good design for the queen of the Pitches ✨✨

[azocscreativespace]

1-12, day 7: Veil

"You're not him.

I keep coming. This is his place. This is where I'm called. But there's only you here...

Where is he? Where is my son?"

"My son, my son. My rosebud boy. I never would have left you. He told me we were stars.

Simon, Simon... my rosebud boy."

@carryon-countdown

[tyrannuspitch]

thinking about the question of how natasha would have reacted to baz's vampirism again.

i used to be firmly on the side that she would have rejected him entirely, maybe even actually killed him. after all, fiona and baz both say as much, and why would they make that up? true, natasha as a ghost has nothing but love for baz, even though she saw him get turned before she killed herself - but we don't know how the afterlife works or what's going on in her head. maybe she's repressed the memory. maybe she has some kind of Ghost Vision telling her he's still alive, still has a soul, still counts as a person, etc, and she assumes that means he can't possibly be a vampire, so either she was mistaken or they found a cure.

but now i'm like... hmm. that's not actually super convincing. it's still very much an open question. it's equally possible that natasha has realised that she was turned and yet she undeniably still has a soul, so maybe not ever single vampire needs to be burnt at the stake.

but like. part of the reason i used to grate against the idea of an accepting natasha was because i felt like it so easily turned into flattening her into a perfect mother who only exists in the story to heal baz, and that's so clearly not who she is...

but now i'm wondering if fiona and (possibly*) malcolm are actually doing a similar sort of flattening by being so certain natasha would murder her only son. not making her a perfect person or mother, but making her a perfect pitch - someone who would never sacrifice her honour for anything, whose loyalty to the family name overrides even her loyalty to the real family in front of her. a pristine symbol of a lost age.

honestly, i think the combination of general vampirism stigma with natasha's death is strong enough that it's not just that baz feels guilty for surviving - on some level, fiona and (possibly*) malcolm actually feel guilty for letting him live. of course, they'd feel guilty for killing him too, doubtless far more so, and there's no danger of them actually doing it... but i think it's still part of the picture. they love baz, but they're still afraid of him, and even though he hasn't actually done anything (yet?), it still feels treacherous and unclean just for there to be a vampire within the pitch home.

*we never get to see inside malcolm's head, so we don't actually know if his position is the same as fiona's. but baz has picked up fiona's position and never had it contradicted, so it seems likely.